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Online-Ressource (265 p)
ISBN:
9780786429158
Content:
The Hippie movement of the 1960s helped change modern societal attitudes toward ethnic and cultural diversity, environmental accountability, spiritual expressiveness, and the justification of war. With roots in the Beat literary movement of the late 1950s, the hippie perspective also advocated a bohemian lifestyle which expressed distaste for hypocrisy and materialism yet did so without the dark, somewhat forced undertones of their predecessors. This cultural revaluation which developed as a direct response to the dark days of World War II created a counterculture which came to be at the epice
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Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Act I. Narrative Foreplay; 1. Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs: "The Vectoring Legacy of the Beats"; 2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962): Shock Therapy, Surreally; 3. Sometimes a Great Notion (1964): A Frontier Duality; 4. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me and The Crying of Lot 49 (1966): A Chic Cabal; 5. Trout Fishing in America (1967): It's All in the Presentation; Act II. Narrative Interplay; 6. Siddhartha (1922): The Spiritual Quest; 7. Stranger in a Strange Land (1961): The Ecstasy of Grokking
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8. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968): Intersubjectivity9. The Armies of the Night (1968): Meta-Journalism, Insta-History; 10. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969): So It Goes; Act III. Narrative Afterplay; 11. Divine Right's Trip (1971): The Last Whole Earth; 12. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971): Going "Gonzo"; 13. The Fan Man (1974): Missed Bliss of the Love Chorus; 14. Another Roadside Attraction (1971) and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976): A Shifting Zeitgeist; 15. An Essay on Slouching, Hippies, and Hitchhiking; Denouement; 16. Postmodernism Reconstructed; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
9780786481194
Additional Edition:
Print version The Hippie Narrative : A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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